007 Spectre Omega

Still like the non LE better

which makes it a decorative bezel...only

I assume it's more usefull for most of the buyers, as it gives the watch a GMT function.

A gmt function requires a 24 hour bezel with an added hand or a day/ night marker. As is it gives you the ability, if anything, to offset a 12 hour period and give you 3 time zones at the same time. You'll still need to workout where you are in GMT time all by yourself..

Or if you are a military hour (24 hour) person it gives you only morning time.

So no, it's not more a GMT bezel than if you used a piece of chewing gum to mark the 12 point on a regular watch.

Or there might be another method to the bezel. Wait for the movie.

Sure, he may use it to detonate a bomb or drive his car, it is still useless to us.

These films are not like the Brosnan era. The bezel could have a useful function.

I doubt it very much. I may be wrong but something tells me they're going retro and back to gadget Bond. Nothing wrong with that.

I also can't wait to see the next Omega Spider-Man LE with a web thrower!! Imagine all the people jumping off buildings trying it out!

The bezel and the lollipop will have a special role to play in the movie 😉

you'll see that this lollipop is not really a classic / vintage style lollipop... The question is : why?

Put the new bracelet on the old watch. Don't like the bezel and don't like the "look at me on screen" logo. Like the lollipop but not enough to offset the other two issues. But the bracelet is much nicer. I really don't like the half brushed half polished original.

Well, being from darkest Peru and therefore a frequent worl traveller (and not a cave explorer as probably most people are) and hence mostly intersted in local and home time and equipped with sensory equippment calles "eyes" which makes it possible for me to distinguish between day and night, the bidirectional bezel does make more sense than a dive bezel, which does not conform to ISO 6425 regulations. I'd assume, most people would use something called a "dive computer" for their underwater adventures.

Happy to argue which bezel is the most useless...

It's not about having eyes. The purpose of a GMT for an avid traveler as you is not to see if it's day or night where you are, but where you're not. For example: I'm six hours from Spain. I set the bezel at plus six hours which means the 24 hour hand tells me at 12 noon in NYC it's 18:00 in Spain, or 6 PM. If, however, it says it's 6:00 then it's 6 AM which is probably the time in Hawai os some other place 6 hour clicks west from NY, rather than east.

Or conversely when I'm in Spain at 20:00 it will tell me specifically it's 14:00 in NYC ( or 2 pm) not 2 AM in China or wherever it may be.

Of course, having gone to school I can add and subtract all by my little self so I don't really need a GMT at all, or I can always in my head remember that I'm ahead or behind my local time... But the point is to not have to, specially if you're a pilot and your timetable is set at UTZ or GMT time no matter where you are as was the case when the GMT function came into play, or if you fly often through the pacific lines.

I also don't need a date function as I normally know what day it is... Come to think about it I don't need a watch function as I have a phone and there are clocks all around me in computers and walls... Or I can ask some pretty girl and hope it'll lead me to dinner.

Hell, not sure I need a left wrist as I have a right one...

Or I can just get a normal watch and a marker and make or tape a mark on whatever place i need the 12 to be for my home time.

But, regardless of what I need, if a watch has a GMT function it should actually be a GMT function, not half a GMT function. It just seems to me people are trying to find a justification for that bezel when there is none, just so they feel a little better about it. It's a Bond watch, a toy, a wonderful and expensive gimmick meant to make Onega money.

If you like it buy it and enjoy it; you don't need any further reason for it other than the fact that you like it.

On the diving bezel Usefulness, I've been in plenty of dives where none of us had anything more complicated then a sub bezel, or if someone had a G shock all they used was the chrono. Unless you're going deeper than 45 or 60 feet you're fine with that. Most of my dives ( all actually) are recreational and stay between 30 and 50 ft. I've gone down to 90 but at my level that required stronger supervision from experts so I just followed them.

Outside of diving though a diving bezel is a great way to have a minute timer where without having to remember at what time you arrived somewhere , or parked your car, or started the laundry or your eggs it will give you an exact minute count.

Of course you can reverse that and calculate exactly 29 minutes or 25 minutes from now and place the arrow on any bezel at the finish minute time... Although the spectre doesn't have an arrow but a 0 will do. Or, once again you can just remember. But as far as which bezel is more useless I think clearly the LE is as it can do nothing that either a GMT or diving bezel can without you having to compensate for it... At which point... What's the point?

guys, it's not a GMT bezel

At least it did not come with a compass bezel, arguably the most useless of all rotating bezels.

And do not even get me started on the non rotating bezel of my Explorer 2...

By the way, the NATO strap is not specific to the Spectre, you can purchase it in any Omega Boutique. The only diffrence between the Spectre Nato and the regular NATO is the very small 007 logo on the Spectre NATO.

Are the spring bars curved?

Right, although the Explorer 2 doesn't need a rotating bezel as it has a separate GMT hand setting function and an independent quick set hour hand, just like the 16710 and beyond. Watches like the 1675 need the rotating bezel as the hands are not independent so without the rotating bezel it just would not be able to be adjusted for the different time zones.

On older GMT's like the 1675 you set the time to GMT or city of origin and rotate the bezel for the local area times if you're returning to origin. otherwise you rotate the bezel to GMT time and adjust the full time as you travel, but that requires two steps more as you have to adjust both the hours and the bezel on each trip as opposed to just the bezel. Worth it if you're going to be an extended period of time on one place, but not so much for a few hours of layover....on modern ones like your explorer 2 you set both the hour hand and GMT hand to gmt or original time and then adjust the time (hour hand only) as you travel, which is why the hour hand has a quick set independent function.

So for simple GMT function on modern GMT's you don't really need the rotating bezel as much. It is practical to switch fast on timezones to have both the bezel and GMT independent hands. For example: to set the hour hand at origin, the GMT at GMT and then rotate the bezel only for quick set reference or quick jumps.

Either way, the GMT function is maintained on an E2.

drop the mic there, brother.

All the little LE tweaks aside (dial, bezel), not my cup of tea and all, I sure wouldn't kick it out of bed for making crumbs!

As many have pointed out, responsible divers generally use dive computers now. These things are amazing, they are incredible, they keep track of everything, accurately. Most even have multi-function displays, you are instantly appraised of you situation, taking into account so many factors, including relevant previous diving activities. Wonderful. Wonderful, that is, until it doesn't work. THIS HAPPENED TO ME. A few years back now, down about 110' (~33m) my display faded and went out. Great. All the algorithms for safe ascent, all the things you trust your computer to do for you, out the window. So I came up safely anyhow, using the little thing on my wrist called a Dive Watch with a little thing called a Dive Bezel. My friends, I loved dive watches before, but now I _really_ love dive watches! Especially mechanical ones. Now I dive with TWO computers, and my trusty dive watch haha.